KNOX – Looking ahead to B.C. in 2019: driven crazy by Rachel Rockets
News item: Alberta is threatening to cut the flow of oil to B.C. in retaliation for B.C.’s attempts to block the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Victoria, 2019 [Continue]
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KNOX – Remembering when the pen was mightier than the keyboard
I CANNOT write. Yes, you reply, that’s obvious. No, I mean that literally: I can no longer write longhand. I lost the ability years ago, probably around the time I lost my [Continue]
KNOX – The age-old question: one week or two for spring break?
Editor’s Note: School District 73 put a one-week spring break into effect this year. Most districts, like Victoria where Jack Knox lives and works, are still on two [Continue]
KNOX – Luggie is back on the beat, standing up for mascots everywhere
LUGGIE IS BACK and I am glad. Unreasonably so. From 1996 through 2003, the carpet-clad Lug-A-Rug mascot was an everyday sight in Victoria, dancing and waving to passing [Continue]
KNOX – Snow angst, pipeline politics and remembering Arthur Black
WEDNESDAY, AS the first frightening flakes floated down in daintily deceptive fashion, this appeared on the City of Victoria’s Twitter account: “Due to snow, tonight’s [Continue]
KNOX – There’s not enough listening in this age of instant outrage
IT’S ONE OF those issues that Justin Trudeau just can’t scrape off his shoe. Faith groups are up in arms. An Ontario Catholic diocese says it won’t be “bullied” [Continue]
KNOX – B.C. vows never to surrender in The Great Wine War of 2018
A CHRONOLOGY of the Great Wine War of 2018: Jan. 30 — Citing the risk to B.C.’s environment, Premier John Horgan announces the province might limit imports of Alberta [Continue]
KNOX – Give this to Justin Trudeau: he shows up, and he doesn’t hide
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Groundhog Day, but this wasn’t just another town hall as Justin Trudeau wound up his cross-Canada tour at Nanaimo’s Vancouver Island University on [Continue]
KNOX – The tsunami that wasn’t illustrated how unprepared we are
SO, HOW DID you react when you heard about the tsunami that wasn’t? Did you call 911 to ask for advice? That’s precisely what you’re not supposed to do, but people did [Continue]
KNOX – Not many smokers left to complain about ban by B.C. ferries
AS OF MONDAY, you may not smoke anywhere on a B.C. Ferries vessel or at its terminals. No smoking tobacco, no smoking e-cigarettes, no smoking dope (yes, the ban includes [Continue]
KNOX – Why the provincial government wants to expand wolf-trapping program
THE PROVINCIAL government wants to extend the wolf-trapping season on Vancouver Island. To which you reply: We trap wolves here? Yes, we do, which some people think is [Continue]
KNOX – If you’re going to give up on New Year’s resolutions, why wait?
NEW YEAR’S resolution No. 1 for 2018? Same as in 2015, 2016 and 2017: Cross the new Johnson Street Bridge on the day it opens. Resolution No. 2: Be more considerate. [Continue]
KNOX – The week that was, and some advice for partygoers
THE WEEK in news: Item No. 1: Actor Jim Nabors died. Admit it: You saw Gomer Pyle’s picture flash up on the TV news and automatically assumed he was the latest celeb outed [Continue]
KNOX – Sometimes it takes a trip away to make us appreciate home
A MAN WAS SHOT on the Las Vegas strip recently, right in front of the Monte Carlo hotel. I know this because a beefy, blazered hotel security guy was blocking the sidewalk. [Continue]
